1.) Increasing the price of call display from $5 a month to $7 a month...

2.) Instituting charging for incoming SMS/text messages at $0.15 a message unless you have a plan...

My reaction to 1. is simply numbing... I mean, they're going to charge me more for a feature that they've offered since day 1, that is provided by software and that they don't actually have to put any effort into. Well, that's just a cash grab... and it shows just how happy they are to continue to reward my seven years of loyalty. More money, no additions in service... awesome.

My reaction to 2. is to be simply perplexed. I mean, okay, I could pay $5/mth to get a bucket of text messages that could help me... again, rewarding my loyalty by charging me more... [oh yah, when I originally signed up as a Bell subscriber so long ago I'm pretty sure SMS was $0.10 a piece... funny that it too, with no additional overhead (SMS is handled again by software in the network that requires little in terms of operation cost) went up in price. Argh!] Anyway, as Kev pointed out to me in a conversation, Bell must have a way of blocking incoming text messages now, since I can't control who sends me messages - maybe I'll try that.